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[luke]

I hope I am in the right forum for Virtual drives.

I read that I can test my Slipstraemed XP CD by installing it on a virtual drive.

1. I downloaded MS Virdual PC and created a VHD, but cannot install the XP in it as it says it cannot find the drive.
Anybody knows how to make it find the VDrive or find where I go wrong?
All the places I googled for the MS VPC refer to MAC machines.

2. Also tried MVWARE but similar thing, "....you have no tools installed..." which no matter what I do cannot find them. MVware Workstation download said it had tools in it, and other errors encountered, BUT will not install the ruddy XP in it.

Any help appreciated,
PC Home build
Asus A8N 32 sli deluxe
Bios AMI 64-1009-009999
Chipset nF4-sli x16
AMD 3.5+ (2.20ghz)
Corsair twinx 1024-3200 DDR400mhz SDRAM 2x512mb
MSI 6600gt 128 PCI-E
Maxtor sata 160mb
PSU 400w
XP sp2
X45

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

[luke]

Well after all the 3 days work on this, and the bother I caused, here is XP PRO SP1 running on the Virtual Drive within my windows desktop. HOW? don't ask me, sheer fluke.

On the final desperate attempt, when it asked to press C to Format the Unallocated Partition, after pressing C I pressed ENTER and lo & behold the format and the intall started & completed.

One major snag though. During the process it kept saying this and that file is not found and XP may not work, many many of them, but I kept pressing Enter to almost half way there, then it completed by itself.

The final install is [b]XP PRO SP1[/b], which is not on.

My CD was a [b]Sleapstream of nLite XP PRO SP1 with SP2, MS Updates, and a lot of removals to slimm it down.[/b] All that seems to have been be lost and would like to know why.

If I have to Repair the C:\ Windows one day, it will be pointles using this CD if I will end up with plain SP1.

Have 3 days of hard work gone for nothing? Here is what I got, and works just like my True HD windows.
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UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

[jwnoodle]

Alas, at least you finally got it to work out.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)